Royal Court Theatre
James Burden is a skilled lighting technician and operator currently working at STAGE ENGAGE since October 2023, as well as serving as an LX Operator for Spitting Image at the Phoenix Theatre under Ambassador Theatre Group and Sundown Kiki Reloaded at Young Vic. Additional experience includes roles as a lighting technician with Event Sound & Light Ltd and SOUND CHOICE HIRE LIMITED, and as a lighting programmer with Light Motif and Quantum Creative, where James contributed to the Nike Pegasus 41 Relay event. James has held a casual position as an LX Operator at the Royal Court Theatre since November 2022 and recently served as a cover lighting designer at Guildford School of Acting. Currently pursuing a Bachelor of Arts in Creative Lighting Control at Rose Bruford College, with previous education at Langley Park School for Boys.
Royal Court Theatre
The Royal Court Theatre is the writers’ theatre. It is the leading force in world theatre for energetically cultivating writers ‐ undiscovered, emerging and established. Through the writers the Royal Court is at the forefront of creating restless, alert, provocative theatre about now. inspiring audiences and influencing future writers. We open our doors to the unheard voices and free thinkers that, through their writing, change our way of seeing. Over 120,000 people visit the Royal Court in Sloane Square, London, each year and many thousands more see our work elsewhere through transfers to the West End and New York, UK and international tours, digital platforms, our residencies across London and our site-specific work. The Royal Court’s extensive development activity encompasses a diverse range of writers and artists and includes an ongoing programme of writers’ attachments, readings, workshops and playwriting groups. Twenty years of the International Department’s pioneering work around the world means the Royal Court has relationships with writers on every continent. It is because of this commitment to the writer that we believe there is no more important theatre in the world than the Royal Court.